“Kids books and cookbooks and other full-color titles will likely be rendered either unavailable (if they’re printed outside the US, say in China or Mexico) or unaffordable (if publishers decide to print them here instead). International mail order, even across the border to Canada, will be financially ruinous for sellers and buyers. Even domestically printed paperbacks will likely see a price hike as imported paper is slammed by import surcharges. Publishers will take fewer risks on new authors, and print fewer copies. The industry already operates on impossibly thin margins. What’s more impossible than impossible? And that’s assuming there’s anyone actually able to buy new releases. For many people, books are considered a luxury, which means they buy fewer of them in a recession.”
Indie bookseller Paul Bradley Carr on "Interesting Times" (citizenbookseller.com)